Month: July 2019

Ninth Circuit Refuses En Banc Review of Child Slave Labor Case

July 26, 2019

Source: Nestle Won’t Get Full Ninth Circuit Review of Slave Labor Case A three-judge panel of the court held in October 2018 that the Alien Tort Statute covers allegations that the companies aided and abetted slave labor. Allegations that the companies perpetuated overseas slave labor from headquarters in the U.S. are relevant to the statute’s … More Ninth Circuit Refuses En Banc Review of Child Slave Labor Case

Equifax data breach: Credit reporting agency to pay up to $700 million in settlement – CNN

July 22, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that Equifax will pay at least $300 million and as much as $425 million to compensate affected people with credit monitoring services. That money will go into a fund that will also reimburse people who purchased credit- or identity-monitoring services because of the 2017 data breach. The amount of … More Equifax data breach: Credit reporting agency to pay up to $700 million in settlement – CNN

Prosecutors Are Working to Clear Wrongful Convictions, but Their Record Is Mixed

July 14, 2019

BEFORE THE CHARGES against him were finally dismissed, Richard Phillips spent more than 45 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, earning him the dubious distinction of having been locked up longer than any other exoneree to date. He is one of 2,425 wrongfully convicted individuals exonerated since 1989, who have collectively … More Prosecutors Are Working to Clear Wrongful Convictions, but Their Record Is Mixed